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Hungary: Energy Efficiency Directive implemented in Hungarian legislation. Energy efficiency targets of EU The aim of the Energy Efficiency Directive is to establish a common legal framework to promote energy efficiency within the European Union. This means achieving the Union’s energy efficiency target of

Estonia: Changes to the Public Procurement Act will solve many practical public procurement issues. In 2014, the European Parliament adopted three new public procurement directives. These give Estonia until 18 April 2016 to implement them, so the Ministry of Finance is working on a draft revision of the Public Procurement Act.

Latvia: Changes to Latvian law restrict separate legal ownership of land and buildings. Current Latvian law allows shared property rights in a rather wide sense: buildings and the land under them may have different legal owners. The reason for this rule was uncertainty about ownership of real estate during the

Belarus: From 26 January 2016, establishment of companies with one shareholder/member is possible in Belarus The Law of the Republic of Belarus of 15.07.2015 no 308-L significantly amends the company law. The most important change is the possibility to establish a one-member company in

Lithuania: bnt attorneys-at-law represent German insolvency administrator in a landmark cross-border insolvency case. The case concerned interpretation of the European Insolvency Regulation (IR), in particular whether the criteria of an “establishment” were fulfilled, allowing the Lithuanian courts to open so-called secondary insolvency proceedings against a German debtor, where the competent